Obama and his claim that, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed….” George Orwell defining “doublethink,” in 1984.

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” H. L. Mencken

“There’s a sucker born every minute.” attr. P.T. Barnum

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln.

They only need to fool 50.1% of the people, and not ALL of the time, just during the first week of November.

And actually, they don’t need to FOOL them, they can also merely confuse them, and baffle em, and then keep up a constant refrain, with the complicit help of the media of “Hate The Republicans, Fear The Party, Loathe the Tea Party, Run Away, Don’t Trust The Evil Conservatives, Run Away, Run Away!”

Ron19

Maybe we ought to have a clean-slate election: everybody in Congress is automatically booted all at once, and we start from scratch.

We’d also have to get rid of all the people who know how to get things done in Congress: the staffers and lobbyists.

Shortly after the 2010 or 2012 elections, I saw an article on how the new Congress critters find out how things are done and where is the nearest restroom, etc. The returning pols farm out some of the displaced, and un-displaced staffers are farmed out to the freshman. And all of the existing lobbyists and their new revolving-door associates are available to all.

Call me Lennie

What makes this video even more devastating is that you can clearly see that not only is Obama blatantly lying, but he’s doing so in a contemptuous manner. He’s spewing hatred and contempt at people who are speaking the truth; demonizing decent people. It couldn’t be more obvious.

Moreover, this video exposes the central tactic of leftists — the brilliantly nuanced sneering tone which implies to the uninformed that not only is the speaker telling the truth, but that any disagreement is beyond the pale of reasonable discourse.

But once this tactic is exposed as a central tool in promoting a lie, it is then seen as the most hateful thing imaginable. It also highlights something we have been trying to tell people all along — not only do lefties lie, but there is no limit to their willingness and ability to lie. This has always been a problem for us; our indictment of leftism is so enormous it makes us look like lunatics. That is why this moment and this video is poisonous to Obama